Rich Lowry: Don’t rewrite books

There's a reason that everyone naturally recoils from Winston Smith's work in "1984" in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, changing old newspaper articles and photographs to update them in keeping with the dictates of the party. The falsity, the thoroughness, and the need for control, extending all the way to the past, are all disturbing hallmarks of totalitarian politics.

Froma Harrop: I was a teenage librarian. Don’t arrest me

Nowadays the trollers tend to be right-wingers playing power games and getting a charge out of their intimidation tactics. But crusades to police media consumption are also being waged by elements on the left. Several colleges now let students anonymously report someone they feel — or say they feel — shows discrimination or bias.

Cal Thomas: Pay any price? Bear any burden?

After a year of supporting Ukraine in its attempt to push back the Russian invasion and hold Vladimir Putin accountable for what Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has charged are war crimes, it’s time to ask some hard questions.

Clarence Page: Can Fox News handle the truth? As long as it pleases the viewers

It is understandable that the popular news channel would try to please the conservative audience it has built so successfully, but not at the expense of reality.

Jimmy Carter’s grace and vulnerability

Carter reminds us that the spirit requires care and concern. He reminds us that sometimes the spirit needs to take precedence.

Jimmy Carter: White House rise depended on twists before ’76

As a little-known Georgia governor, Carter announced in late 1974 that he'd seek the presidency. Atlanta's largest newspaper answered with a mocking headline: "Jimmy Who?" National media mostly yawned.

Austin Bay: Weaponizing everything, including lawyers and balloons: China’s 1999 manual for defeating America

Informed minds assure us the study titled "Unrestricted Warfare" and published by the People's Liberation Army in February 1999 isn't a war plan. I'll agree it isn't a step-by-step plan, but it is a thoughtful and deadly intellectual guidebook China's communist leaders are using to defeat the U.S. and establish a Chinese-mandated international order.

Elliott Epstein: Fox News is vulnerable in Dominion defamation lawsuit

Alex Cornell du Houx: After a year of war, we need a Ukraine Clean Energy Marshall Plan urgently

The plan is a crucial opportunity to help undermine Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, strengthen global security, and increase clean energy production.

Cal Thomas: History in black and white

There seems to be a certain conceit among some that the past is irrelevant to modern challenges. The opposite is true.